We hope you enjoyed our Top Africa Stories of the Year 2023. Here are some of our favorite books from 2023:
Governing after War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding
By Shelley X. Liu
Explaining Successes in Africa: Things Don’t Always Fall Apart
By Erin Accampo Hern
Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda
By Shakirah E. Hudani
Towards Jihad? Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique
By Eric Morier-Genoud
An Address in Paris: Emplacement, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants
By Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye
Ghana: A Political and Social History
By Jeffrey Ahlman
Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus
By Ben Radley
Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic
By Gino Vlavonou
Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders
By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics
By Kevin Ochieng Okoth
Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime
By Anne Wolf
Yearning and Refusal: An Ethnography of Female Fertility Management in Niamey, Niger
By Hadiza Moussa, Edited by Alice J. Kang, Barbara M. Cooper, Translated by Natalie Kammerer
Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana
By Barry Driscoll
Good Governance in Nigeria: Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century
By Portia Roelofs
Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul
By Sarah El-Kazaz
The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland
By Noah L. Nathan
Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide
By Marie-Eve Desrosiers
Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana
By Brenda Chalfin
By Rachel Sigman
should DRC build a hydroelectric dam on the Congo river?
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